Abstract

The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, Partnerships for the Goals, aims to foster the wider recognition that combining the efforts and reconciling the interests of different stakeholders in creative and constructive ways will revitalize and give fresh impetus to the global partnership for sustainable development and strengthen the means of implementing it. This short review analyses the concept of multi-stakeholder partnerships, the importance of the latter, as well as its limitations. The article gives examples as to how projects with similar stakeholder contexts can be a success or failure depending on how strong the different partnerships are.

Keywords: Stakeholders; Multi-stakeholder partnerships; SDG 17